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What are Lloyd's hobbies?
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Could we get some wikiquotes? Mathiastck 18:08, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
Looks like a pretty good article to me. I don't feel confident in assigning a rating though. Capitalistroadster 00:37, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
I didn't want to believe the news of his death, and had to check it against other sources. I'm really sorry to see him go. I had always suspected he saw himself as Fflewddur Fflam. My son wrote him to ask him flat-out whether I were right. LA wrote back to my son: "Your father is right about the bard and his author!" He will be missed. To quote Alexander from The High King,
Don't forget this little gem of a book. 69.19.14.20 13:31, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
Should the reference to the American Book Award stay as is? From 1980 to 1986 the National Book Award was called the American Book Award. The award currently known as the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation (and linked to from the article) never awarded anything to Westmark. Westmark won an American Book Award, but that award is again known as the National Book Award. I removed the reference once, but someone else re-added it and I don't want to get into an edit war. Suffice to say that the current reference to the American Book Award is misleading. TheKingRat ( talk) 03:45, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
I've made the change in this article. However, I would strongly suggest adding this info the both the National Book Award and American Book Award articles. Thanks for explaining all this. Best,-- SouthernNights ( talk) 23:11, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
Joanna (yesterday's editor),
In front endpapers of The Iron Ring (novel) (1997 first ed.) publisher Dutton lists four translations among the "Books by Lloyd Alexander" (all publishers)
-- P64 ( talk) 19:24, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
I suspect there is often no fact of the matter regarding subtitles. Authors and continuing publishers may vary their usage regarding "T", "T:S", and even "S:T" (where T and S are title and subtitle), not to mention database compilers and new publishers. Certainly the listings in endpapers of an author's other works are unreliable in this. Perhaps in USA a publisher officially gives either "T" or "T:S" as the title when it files with the Library of Congress?
august bondi border hawk
returns three "August Bondi: Border Hawk" and six "Border Hawk: August Bondi" on the first page of ten hits, while border hawk august bondi
returns one AB:BH and eight BH:AB. The cover shows Border Hawk first and smaller, August Bondi second and larger. --
P64 (
talk) 20:16, 28 December 2011 (UTC)Lloyd Alexander Interview Transcript (1999)[interview date evidently 1999-01-26: "I will be 75 in another four days"]. Interview with Scholastic students. Scholastic Inc.
It's a long interview with multiple exchanges on Prydain, Westmark, Time Cat, and general matters. Some other stories are mentioned once. -- P64 ( talk) 20:38, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
Struggle to provide very specific references has great impact on phrasing. -- P64 ( talk) 01:55, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the encouragement. Here I will note a few points that are not supported by the sources I am able to consult, nor clearly sourced by the given references (some of which are deadlinks). So far I have retained "Looking for adventure,". --with some discomfort. He looked for adventure in WWII service? Could he leave Haverford and avoid service? The current implication that he selected either combat intelligence or training in Wales for adventure owes to my clumsy writing.
So far I have compared 1973 first and 1999 expanded editions of The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain. The preface or "Author's Note" is not revised; only edited to eliminate all semicolons and many commas, with corresponding tweaks in helper words such as "so" and "and". Substantially, the expanded Henry Holt editions (hard 1999, paper 2006) have the original Author's Note.
There are minor differences "About the author" ([p88] untitled in 1973). -- P64 ( talk) 19:01, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
quote: "Quid plura?" is the blog of Jeff Sypeck, a writer in Washington, D.C.
Sypeck review of Border Hawk, "the latest in an ongoing series of reviews of all of Lloyd Alexander's non-Prydain books." ... In closing, "Adults who grew up reading Lloyd Alexander will find Border Hawk a revelation, not only because the author handles non-mythological subject matter so deftly, but because the book shows that the heroes of Prydain and Westmark have Jewish-American roots."
By the way he calls Border Hawk "fictionalized biography" and "Alexander's first book for children".
This is a serious review. Just now I can't investigate the series further. -- P64 ( talk) 20:16, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
Pursuing the {{ dead link}} at Internet Archive i find no mention of Lloyd Alexander. One of many archived pages, and not the one we cite, is Cassandra Clare Revealed (at S&S, via IA). Alexander doesn't make her five favorite authors or five favorite books, favorite fict. hero or villain, nor any allusion. There is no clear ID of influences.
Another editor may be happy to poke around that archive or poke around Cassandra Clare at S&S (current).
-- P64 ( talk) 01:43, 19 July 2013 (UTC)
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Alexander's father was Jewish. His birth was registered with the Amalgamated Jewish Congregation of Kingston, Jamaica. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.178.29.81 ( talk) 20:14, 27 October 2023 (UTC)
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What are Lloyd's hobbies?
— Preceding
unsigned comment added by
199.233.142.154 17:21 (
talk •
contribs) 9 February 2007 (UTC)
Could we get some wikiquotes? Mathiastck 18:08, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
Looks like a pretty good article to me. I don't feel confident in assigning a rating though. Capitalistroadster 00:37, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
I didn't want to believe the news of his death, and had to check it against other sources. I'm really sorry to see him go. I had always suspected he saw himself as Fflewddur Fflam. My son wrote him to ask him flat-out whether I were right. LA wrote back to my son: "Your father is right about the bard and his author!" He will be missed. To quote Alexander from The High King,
Don't forget this little gem of a book. 69.19.14.20 13:31, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
Should the reference to the American Book Award stay as is? From 1980 to 1986 the National Book Award was called the American Book Award. The award currently known as the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation (and linked to from the article) never awarded anything to Westmark. Westmark won an American Book Award, but that award is again known as the National Book Award. I removed the reference once, but someone else re-added it and I don't want to get into an edit war. Suffice to say that the current reference to the American Book Award is misleading. TheKingRat ( talk) 03:45, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
I've made the change in this article. However, I would strongly suggest adding this info the both the National Book Award and American Book Award articles. Thanks for explaining all this. Best,-- SouthernNights ( talk) 23:11, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
Joanna (yesterday's editor),
In front endpapers of The Iron Ring (novel) (1997 first ed.) publisher Dutton lists four translations among the "Books by Lloyd Alexander" (all publishers)
-- P64 ( talk) 19:24, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
I suspect there is often no fact of the matter regarding subtitles. Authors and continuing publishers may vary their usage regarding "T", "T:S", and even "S:T" (where T and S are title and subtitle), not to mention database compilers and new publishers. Certainly the listings in endpapers of an author's other works are unreliable in this. Perhaps in USA a publisher officially gives either "T" or "T:S" as the title when it files with the Library of Congress?
august bondi border hawk
returns three "August Bondi: Border Hawk" and six "Border Hawk: August Bondi" on the first page of ten hits, while border hawk august bondi
returns one AB:BH and eight BH:AB. The cover shows Border Hawk first and smaller, August Bondi second and larger. --
P64 (
talk) 20:16, 28 December 2011 (UTC)Lloyd Alexander Interview Transcript (1999)[interview date evidently 1999-01-26: "I will be 75 in another four days"]. Interview with Scholastic students. Scholastic Inc.
It's a long interview with multiple exchanges on Prydain, Westmark, Time Cat, and general matters. Some other stories are mentioned once. -- P64 ( talk) 20:38, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
Struggle to provide very specific references has great impact on phrasing. -- P64 ( talk) 01:55, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the encouragement. Here I will note a few points that are not supported by the sources I am able to consult, nor clearly sourced by the given references (some of which are deadlinks). So far I have retained "Looking for adventure,". --with some discomfort. He looked for adventure in WWII service? Could he leave Haverford and avoid service? The current implication that he selected either combat intelligence or training in Wales for adventure owes to my clumsy writing.
So far I have compared 1973 first and 1999 expanded editions of The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain. The preface or "Author's Note" is not revised; only edited to eliminate all semicolons and many commas, with corresponding tweaks in helper words such as "so" and "and". Substantially, the expanded Henry Holt editions (hard 1999, paper 2006) have the original Author's Note.
There are minor differences "About the author" ([p88] untitled in 1973). -- P64 ( talk) 19:01, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
quote: "Quid plura?" is the blog of Jeff Sypeck, a writer in Washington, D.C.
Sypeck review of Border Hawk, "the latest in an ongoing series of reviews of all of Lloyd Alexander's non-Prydain books." ... In closing, "Adults who grew up reading Lloyd Alexander will find Border Hawk a revelation, not only because the author handles non-mythological subject matter so deftly, but because the book shows that the heroes of Prydain and Westmark have Jewish-American roots."
By the way he calls Border Hawk "fictionalized biography" and "Alexander's first book for children".
This is a serious review. Just now I can't investigate the series further. -- P64 ( talk) 20:16, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
Pursuing the {{ dead link}} at Internet Archive i find no mention of Lloyd Alexander. One of many archived pages, and not the one we cite, is Cassandra Clare Revealed (at S&S, via IA). Alexander doesn't make her five favorite authors or five favorite books, favorite fict. hero or villain, nor any allusion. There is no clear ID of influences.
Another editor may be happy to poke around that archive or poke around Cassandra Clare at S&S (current).
-- P64 ( talk) 01:43, 19 July 2013 (UTC)
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Alexander's father was Jewish. His birth was registered with the Amalgamated Jewish Congregation of Kingston, Jamaica. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.178.29.81 ( talk) 20:14, 27 October 2023 (UTC)